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Tentative Constitution And By-Laws Of The New Farmers Of America Inc., United States Department Of The Interior, Office Of Education, Vocational Education

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The constitution and by-laws of the New Farmers of America.

The Nfa Creed Song For New Farmers Of America, North Carolina Agricultural And Technical State University

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NFA Creed song with agenda.

North And South Dakota Horticulture, December 1935, North And South Dakota Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 8, Number 12

Lewis's Woodpecker, O.A. Stevens
North Dakota News Letter, A.F. Yeager
Winter Care of Trees
Lilies and their Culture, G.L. Slate
President's Corner, F.X. Wallner
American Foulbrood, J.A. Munroe
In Sunny California, A.L. Truax
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
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Bulletin No. 258 - Alfalfa-Seed Investigations In Utah, John W. Carlson

UAES Bulletins

For many years alfalfa-seed production problems have engaged the attention of investigators in various parts of the world. Those factors which are regarded as of greatest importance in seed-setting are general climate, current weather, air humidity, soil moisture, and insect relationships within the various alfalfa-seed districts. Some attention in research has been given to pollen fertility and ovule sterility, as well as to general flower dynamics in relation to environmental conditions. Efforts have been made to develop strains of alfalfa having pollen that is resistant to injury by moisture or having self-tripping flowers or autogamous strains of alfalfa whose flowers …

Bulletin No. 263 - Relative Produciton Of Feed Grain From Spring-Grown Cereals In Utah, R. W. Woodward, D. C. Tingey

UAES Bulletins

Nearly one-third of the cropped acreage of Utah is devoted to cereals. Except for wheat, most of these crops are fed locally. In addition to this, an average of over a million bushels of corn, barley, and oats is shipped into the state each year to be used in various livestock and poultry industries.

The purpose of this publication is to show the comparative amount of feed produced by the different crops--wheat, oats, barley, and corn--under similar conditions as determined for the specified four years by acre-yields obtained in various agricultural regions of the state. One should bear clearly in …

Bulletin No. 260 - Oat Varietal Tests In Utah, R. W. Woodward, D. C. Tingey

UAES Bulletins

The United States Census Report for 1930 shows that approximately 25 per cent of Utah farmers were growing oats at that time. Leading counties in oat production were Sanpete, Utah, Emery, Cache, and Weber, each of which produced over 100,000 bushels. Sanpete County produced over 200,000 bushels, whereas Boxelder, Sevier, Duchesne, and Salt Lake Counties produced slightly less than 100,000 bushels each.

Bulletin No. 261 - Barley Varietal Tests In Utah, R. W. Woodward, D. C. Tingey

UAES Bulletins

In 1929 approximately one-fourth of the farmers of Utah were growing barley, with an average of 6.3 acres to the farm. Cache, Sanpete, Sevier, and Utah Counties each produced over 100,000 bushels. According to the United States Fifteenth Census Report (1930), Davis, Millard, Morgan, Rich, Salt Lake, and Weber Counties each produced from 40,000 to 70,000 bushels.

Bulletin No. 262 - Comparative Yields Of Spring Wheat Varieties In Utah, D. C. Tingey, R. W. Woodward

UAES Bulletins

Wheat was one of the first crops grown by early Utah settlers. It has since occupied an important place in the agriculture of the state. While wheat is almost the only crop grown successfully on dry-lands, it is also important under irrigation. Thirty per cent of the wheat acreage of Utah in 1929 was spring-sown, which produced 44 per cent of the state's production. Eighty-seven per cent of the spring wheat acreage was grown under irrigation, this acreage producing 92.3 per cent of the total spring wheat crop. Thirty-eight per cent of Utah farmers were growing spring wheat in 1929; …

Bulletin No. 264 - Relief Wheat, D. C. Tingey, R. W. Woodward

UAES Bulletins

Relief, a new variety of hard red winter wheat resistant to most forms of covered smut occurring in Utah, was bred by the Department of Agronomy, Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. Produced by hybridization, it resulted from a response to an urgent need for some more effective means of controlling the serious disease of wheat known as covered smut or bunt. In addition to being resistant to forms of covered smut which have caused such heavy losses to wheat farmers of central and northern Utah and southern Idaho, experiments have also shown that it appears equal in all other respects (such …

Bulletin No. 259 - Drainage Of Land Overlying An Artesian Groudwater Reservoir: Final Report, O. W. Israelsen, W. W. Mclaughlin

UAES Bulletins

This bulletin constitutes a final report of some phases of cooperative drainage studies in Cache Valley, Utah. The drainage problem in Cache Valley is typical, in many respects, of drainage problems in other irrigated valleys of Utah and the West in general. Application of the principles indicated by the problems will doubtless add materially to the productivity of the land in the several communities concerned and will also contribute to the advancement of public welfare in the general improvement of health, economic, and social conditions. Alkali and water-logging affecting large areas are causes not only of low productivity of the …

North And South Dakota Horticulture, November 1935, North And South Dakota Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 8, Number 11

The Rock Wren, O.A. Stevens
N.D. News Letter, A.F. Yeager
Winter Protection, P.L. Keene
Beekeeping Notes, F.D. Butcher
President's Corner, F.X. Wallner
Desert Wild Flowers, A.L. Truax
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
The Gooseberry, H.L. Walster

Gypsum - Its Value To Texas, May L. Whitsitt

Field and Laboratory

"Gyp" water is for many people the only means of acquaintance with gypsum. A grayish deposit in the tea­ kettle and the difficulties encountered when "gyp" water is used for laundering do not serve as a fitting introduction to the beautiful alabaster of the Taj Mahal. For alabaster is gypsum, too. There are still other forms of gypsum which are making this mineral increasingly important.

Dinosaur Track Mounted In The Band Stand At Glen Rose, Texas, Ellis W. Shuler

Field and Laboratory

Dinosaur tracks have been reported from at least nine localities in Hood County, Texas. All tracks occur in the Glen Rose limestone. The vertical range of the tracks is very limited so far as present studies go. Locally, the tracks are known as "bird tracks". One locality near the county seat, Glen Rose, was described in 1917. Recently a superb dinosaur track was taken from the "fourth crossing" of the Paluxy River about six miles west of the town of Glen Rose and placed by the citizens of the community in the base of the bandstand located in the court …

Charles Wright's 1849 Botanical Collecting-Trip From San Antonio To El Paso; With Type-Localities For New Species, S. W. Geiser

Field and Laboratory

In the spring of 1849, Lt. William Farrar Smith, of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, U. S. A., discovered a southern route between San Antonio and El Paso.

Additional Data On Feeding Habits Of The Short-Eared Owl, Claude Kelly

Field and Laboratory

During January, 1935, forty large owl pellets were collected from the roosting site of a colony of approximately eighty short-eared owls, located along the northwestern marshy edge of White Rock Lake, near Dallas, Texas. The owls had occupied the area for a period of nearly two months during their migration. Each of the forty pellets collected was broken up by washing, the bones removed, placed in numbered boxes and sent to the Division of Wild Life Research, U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey, for analysis.

The Growth Of Dallas From 1850 To 1930, Edwin J. Foscue

Field and Laboratory

With the Texas Centennial being held in Dallas next summer, and emphasis being placed upon the development and growth of the state throughout the period, it seems fitting to trace briefly the growth of the centennial city even though it be only ninety-five years old at the time.

Histological Changes In The Liver Of Salamanders During Starvation, Jean Stevenson

Field and Laboratory

The purpose of the present paper is to present briefly observations made on the microscopic structure of the liver of the salamander, Ambystoma maculatum, during inanition.

Relative Efficiency Of Roots And Tops Of Plants In Protecting The Soil From Erosion, J. E. Weaver

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Plant cover, soil and topography are the major factors concerned in the problem of erosion. During the earlier studies, conducted largely by engineers, chief emphasis was placed upon topography. Following extensive work by pedologists, it is now generally conceded that type of soil is an equally important factor. Intensive studies on the effect of plant cover reveal the extremely important role played by plants in holding the soil against the forces of erosion. In this preliminary account of the relative effectiveness of roots as compared to tops in holding the soil in place, the results are based on extensive experiments …

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 11, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

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North And South Dakota Horticulture, October 1935, North And South Dakota Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 8, Number 10

The Lazula Bunting, O.A. Stevens
N.D. Newsletter, A.F. Yeager
Fall Planting, P.L. Keene
Seed for Shelterbelt, Max Pfaender
Presidents Corner, F.X. Wallner
In Arizona, A.L. Truax
Secretary's Corner
Beekeeping Notes
Garden Clubs, Victor Lundeen

Role Of Fire In Pasture Management, J. E. Weaver

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

The practice of burning grass is an old one. It was extensively used by the Indians to attract game animals in early spring and to facilitate hunting. It is also highly probable that a large portion of the prairie was burned periodically during very dry years from natural causes

Response Of The Prairie To The Great Drought Of 1934, J. E. Weaver, L. A. Stoddart, W. M. Noll

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Drought during the growing season of 1934 was the greatest ever recorded in the prairie region. It offered an exceptional opportunity to study the response of native plants to extremely adverse water relations. Measurements of the environmental factors of the prairie, in connection with various grassland researches, have now been completed, except for one year, for the seventeenth consecutive growing season. In a summary of findings at the end of twelve years it was stated that although periods of drought are liable to occur at any time, and especially after midsummer, yet only twice during these twelve years was the …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (Oct 1935) 3(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

The Weights of 356 Nebraska Specimens of Geese of the Branta canadensis Group, Formerly Contained in the D. H. Talbot Collection. By Myron H. Swenk and Philip A. DuMont ... 135

General Notes ... 142

Editorial Page ... 146

The 1985 Migration Season ... 148

Index ... 152

Advertisement ... 160

North And South Dakota Horticulture, September 1935, North And South Dakota Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 8, Number 9

Chestnut-collared Longspur, O.A. Stevens
N.D. News Letter, A.F. Yeager
Garden Club Notes, P.L. Keene
Celotex, J.A. Munro
President's Corner, F.X. Wallner
The Strange Southwest, A.L. Traux
Beekeeping Notes, J.A. Munro
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
Walnuts from Seed, Mrs. L.G. Elsinger
The Indian, J.H. Berry

The Utilization Of Nitrogen, Calcium, And Phosphorus By The Growing Chick, C. W. Ackerson, M. J. Blish, F. E. Mussehl

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

1. The nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus content of 127 newly hatched chicks was determined. 2. Thirty newly hatched chicks were fed accurately known amounts of a good chick mash for 60 days. At the end of the period nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, and fat were determined for each chick. 3. By means of the comparative slaughter test the retention of nitrogen was found to be 37.8 per cent, calcium 43.4 per cent, and phosphorus 27.3 per cent of the respective elements fed. 4. The average gain in live weight per gram of nitrogen fed was 12.0 grams. 5. The rate of …

Bulletin No. 257 - Factors Promoting Positive Health In School Children, Almeda Perry Brown

UAES Bulletins

It is necessary only to observe groups of rural children to become convinced that too many of them are deprived of their rightful heritage of positive health.

Why children playing together, working together, under conditions which apparently vary but little, should exhibit such wide variation in health conditions, is a question of vital importance to all concerned with the care of children.

It was with the hope of finding some of the causes behind these variations that the present study was initiated. That the problem is complex and intricate was fully realized, and no hope was entertained that its solution …

The Phaenogams Of Western Kentucky University State Teachers College, Gertrude Raymond

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The campus of Western Kentucky State Teachers College was laid out in 1910 by Mr. Henry Wright, landscape architect, with the view of planting ornamental shrubs and woody and herbaceous plants indigenous to Kentucky. In more recent years the gardens on the grounds of the Kentucky Building have been planted with many species of Kentucky plants.

This study was undertaken for the purpose of making a scientific classification of the flowering plants on the campus of Western Kentucky State Teachers College.

A Comparative Pollution Study Of The Domestic Water Supply Of Warren County, Kentucky, Glenn Scott

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The domestic water supply of Warren County, outside of the city of Bowling Green, is obtained from deep wells and springs. The county is about evenly divided into a southern section of cavernous limestone and a northern section of mixed sandstone and limestone formations.

The wells of the southern cavernous limestone region receive water from unfiltered underground streams and lakes. Most of the wells of the northern region are drilled in sandstone and the water, in a majority of cases, is filtered through porous sandstone and shale.

The purpose of this study was to make a comparative pollution study of …

A Comparative Histological Study Of The Eyes Of Certain Cave Animals, William Owsley

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

As early as 1850 many reports of observations of the blind cave animals were made by both scientific and popular writers. Tellkempf, Agassiz, Forbes and Silliman were some of the earlier scientists who studied the eyes of cave animals. Eigenmann made a histological study of the cave vertebrates of America. In a study of Forbesichthys papilliferus, a semi-blind cave fish, Jennie Miller Orr found important structural modifications in the eyes of this species. Since no comparative histological studies of the eyes of cave animals seem to have been made, it was decided to make such a study with a view …

The Vitamin A Content Of Sour Cream Butter, Sweet Cream Butter, And Margarines, I. L. Hathaway, H. P. Davis

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

Nineteen samples of margarine were obtained from Illinois, Ohio and Nebraska. They were analyzed chemically and the vitamin A content of each one was compared with that of either sour-cream or sweet-cream butter. The fat content of the butter samples varied from 80.2 to 81.5 per cent, while the fat content of the margarine samples varied from 78 .3 to 89.2 per cent. From the results it was evident that these samples of margarine were very poor sources of vitamin A when compared with butter. One of the margarine samples caused an average gain of 10 grams per rat and …